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• tptacek 6y ago
  Not really, no: * Languages with significant runtimes are going to be rejected by project maintainers; nobody is going to rube-goldberg a GC into an existing project just to replace a risky component when the option not to do that exists. * Languages with insignificant adoption are going to be rejected by project maintainers because why take a flyer on an unknown quantity (not just technically but in terms of where the community will be 5 years from now) on a project you've been maintaining for decades? Say what you will about the Rust community and its long-term financial viability but the industry is pretty much already committed to it. I'm fine with Rust but, like, not it's biggest fan (strongly prefer Go) but Rust pretty clearly hits the sweet spot being targeted here. I think you can assume safely that most of this work will be done in Rust.
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    F-Secure has decided otherwise for bare metal secure firmware.